Most people who engage you at bus stops are a little eccentric

[jmtorres]

I mean, is it just me or is a bus stop a weird place to try to pick someone up?

People use my hair as an opening to talk to me, because it is interesting colors. Both men and women have done this, so I can say that my feelings about being hit on at the bus stop are not related to "I am a lesbian: go away, dude." I just don't really feel the bus stop pick-up at all.

The dude today was telling me how he'd had his hair done blue in the winter and it had gone to turquoise fairly fast, to his disappointment, which, you know, that is a bitch, and he thought the stylist had used cheap dye on him, and stuff. And then he segued into telling me how to attract the right person you just have to be completely yourself and I was clearly on that path with my red hair and then he leapt to body type. I have broad shoulders but he respects me. And I am not obese. I think he was incoherently trying to say I looked comfortable in my own skin, because to say that I am not obese is laughably non-factual. Still, I had a moment of DAMN YOUR FLATTERY, GOOD SIR, WHY MUST I RESPOND TO IT SO INSTINCTIVELY. Excellent grasp of which cultural triggers to deconstruct to flatter a fat girl, he had, just utter absurdity in execution.

Fortunately the bus came then, and he didn't get on it with me.

Comments

[giglet]

I kinda like having neutral conversations with people at the bus stop or on the street. I think at most, I'd tell you that your hair is interesting, though, which I hope you wouldn't take as a pickup line.

That said... the dude commenting on your body type is Not On.

[viridian5]

I've sat through a lot of boring or crazy conversation from guys on mass transit out of being to polite (and worried about some of the crazy ones being armed) to leave.

[sasha_feather]

I love your tags on this entry.